Posts tagged defect

• Vioxx Settlement Reveals Need for Drug Industry Reform

  Seth Miles | November 27, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This morning I ran across an editorial about the recent Vioxx settlement that did a great job pointing out the need for reform in the pharmaceutical industry as well as specific areas where reform is needed. Merck announced a few weeks ago that it would settle Vioxx lawsuits for $4.8 billion. The list of necessary reforms is long. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act passed by Congress in 1992...

• Second Taser Death in Two Days

  Eddie Farah | November 21, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We've been told that tasers are a useful tool for law enforcement to subdue agitated people.But in the last two days in Jacksonville, tasering has resulted in two deaths.In the latest case, a man got into a wreck in the Springfield area Tuesday afternoon. The driver then got out of his vehicle and began fighting with another man. The sheriff's office now says the man, Conrad Purvis Lowman, 35,...

• US Marshals Seize Cosmetic Eye Product

  Joe Saunders | November 18, 2007 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  US Marshals have seized 12,682 applicator tubes of Age Intervention Eyelash because it is an unapproved and misbranded drug that claims to increase the length of eyelashes but may decrease vision. The product, sold and distributed by Jan Marini Skin Research, may increase the risk of optic nerve damage. Damage to this nerve can lead to decreased vision and blindness. The drug has been...

• Death by Taser in Canada

  Joe Saunders | November 17, 2007 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Robert Dziekanski had just landed in Vancouver on his first-ever flight. He was forty years old and about to start a new life in British Columbia with his mother. According to one witness who videotaped the event, Dziekanski was acting erratically but not violently. No drugs or alcohol were involved. Yet, the police confronted him and 46 seconds later tasered him to death. He was hit with...

• Another Dangerous Chinese Made Product

  Ed Normand | November 14, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Add the children's toy "Aqua Dots Super Studio" to the list of dangerous products sold to American children that were manufactured in China. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) if the dots are swallowed they can convert into a chemical like that found in the dangerous, often abused, drug known as GHB. Young children have sustained serious life threatening injuries from...

• Did HPV Vaccine Cause 12-Yr-olds Paralysis?

  Eddie Farah | November 14, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Christina Bell says she had seen ads for a vaccine called Gardasil. The "One Less.." campaign by drugmaker Merck has been very effective and aggressively placed to reach all adolecent girls and their families encouraging them to be injected against Human Papillomavirus or HPV with Gardasil, the drug approved by the FDA in June 2006.So after consulting with her doctor, her 12-year-old, Brittany...

• Del Rey Tortilleria, Inc. Recalls Flour Tortillas Because of Illnesses

  Jenny Albano | November 14, 2007 2:32 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Del Rey Tortilleria, Inc., in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling all of its flour tortillas because they may be linked to some illnesses in schools. The recalled tortillas include White Flour Tortillas; Tortillas de Harina(6 inch); Burritos 2, 3, and 4; and Fajita 8" size with date codes of Oct. 17; Oct. 20; Oct. 24; Nov. 4; Nov. 10; or Nov. 11, 2007.Illinois state officials have told us...

• Major Drug Settlement To Help Vioxx Victims

  Eddie Farah | November 10, 2007 7:39 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Janis Roberts is only 56-years old but already she's had several heart attacks, heart by-pass surgery, a dozen stents inserted in her arteries and a stroke. She's on oxygen and disability living with her sister in St. Nicholas. For her the news Friday morning that drug maker, Merck had agreed to a $4.85 billion settlement over Vioxx meant, "I can finally see some light at the end of the...

• Spin Master Recalls Aqua Dots

  Jenny Albano | November 09, 2007 12:41 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Spin Master, in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 4.2 million Aqua Dots because children have become unconscious and hospitalized after swallowing the beads.The coating on the beads that causes the beads to stick to each other when water is added contains a chemical that can turn toxic when many are ingested. Children who swallow the beads can become comatose, develop respiratory...

• Popular Aqua Dots Crafts for Children Recalled

  Sandy Grinnell | November 08, 2007 2:02 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Consumer Products Safety Commission announced that Spin Master of Toronto, Canada is recalling approximately 4.2 miilion sets of Aqua Dots due to a toxic coating on the beads. If swallowed, the chemical reacts with the body similar to GHB also known as the date rape drug. There have been reports of two children who ended up in the hospital in a coma after swallowing the beads. Parents...